[cairo] JPEG Support For Libcairo

[Bill Spitzak]

I don't know how bloated it is, but a popular solution for this is 
imagemagick: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

It implements a very large number of file formats and is multithreaded.

That said, all work I have done has been to directly call 
libpng/jpeg/etc rather than some library that gathers them all together.

On 01/02/2016 03:17 AM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 31.12.2015 14:02, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>
>> Indeed, at the time, the impression I got from Carl and others was
>> that the PNG support is just a convenience and everything else should
>> be done on top.
>
> Agreed. Maybe we should even put the png stuff into a separate library
> and declare the builtin one deprecated. That way, we leave the distros
> the decision whether to keep it enabled, and applications can be
> migrated smoothly.
>
> The interesting question now is: should we have separate libraries per
> image file format, or one big one, which might even do automatic format
> detection (so applications dont need to care at all).
>
>> gtkpixbuf is one such library that supports a bunch of formats.  I
>> imagine the glib dependency might not be desirable, so someone might
>> want to start a new library.
>
> Exactly. For my project (an tiny widget toolkit) I *definitivly* do
> *not* want anything of that bloat.
>
>
>
> --mtx
>
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> Enrico Weigelt,
> metux IT consulting
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